A selection of films by the one-of-a-kind Dutch filmmaker Frans Zwartjes

Frans Zwartjes' films are extremely unique in many respects, from the queasy, claustrophobic atmosphere created by almost exclusively indoor shoots with handheld cameras, to the intuitive, in-the-camera editing to the wild splashes of vibrant color or very high-contrast black and white as well as subject matter dealing with social taboos and sexual power games. Zwartjes processes all of his own film, so he can saturate the images to suit his own unique taste. The end effect of his films can be highly disconcerting and caused a furor when originally released in Holland.

This selection from his more than 40 films presents two each of his color and black and white works.

Part 1 of Adam Cutis' amazing 6-part series from 1992 looking at political and technocratic rationalism

Pandora's Box, subtitled A fable from the age of science, is a six-part 1992 BBC documentary television series written and produced by Adam Curtis, which examines the consequences of political and technocratic rationalism.

The episodes deal, in order, with communism in The Soviet Union, systems analysis and game theory during the Cold War, economy in the United Kingdom during the 1970s, the insecticide DDT, Kwame Nkrumah's leadership in Ghana during the 1950s and 1960s and the history of nuclear power.

Curtis' later series The Century of the Self and The Trap had similar themes. The title sequence made extensive use of clips from the short film Design for Dreaming, as well as other similar archive footage.